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1. Show HN: I made a SQL game to help people learn / challenge their skills (therobinlord.com)
547 points by robinLord on April 22, 2023 | 117 comments
2. The “Build Your Own Database” book is finished (build-your-own.org)
657 points by tim_sw on April 22, 2023 | 99 comments
3. Parrots learn to make video calls to chat with other parrots: study (northeastern.edu)
480 points by tosh on April 22, 2023 | 215 comments
4. Why the brain’s connections to the body are crisscrossed (quantamagazine.org)
302 points by rolph on April 22, 2023 | 143 comments
5. Prompt engineering vs. blind prompting (mitchellh.com)
358 points by Anon84 on April 22, 2023 | 214 comments
6. Using solar farms to generate fresh desert soil crust (phys.org)
170 points by PaulHoule on April 22, 2023 | 51 comments
7. There is no A.I. (newyorker.com)
341 points by cocacola1 on April 22, 2023 | 503 comments
8. The magic of DC-DC voltage conversion (lcamtuf.substack.com)
229 points by zdw on April 22, 2023 | 134 comments
9. How did the chess pieces get their names? (atlasobscura.com)
162 points by Brajeshwar on April 22, 2023 | 78 comments
10. How much can Duolingo teach us? (newyorker.com)
192 points by herbertl on April 22, 2023 | 331 comments
11. System D (wikipedia.org)
177 points by diddlybopshubop on April 22, 2023 | 97 comments
12. How to become a “designer who codes” (2019) (design.systems)
74 points by blueridge on April 21, 2023 | 102 comments
13. The Joy of an Empty Brain (wsj.com)
146 points by robg on April 21, 2023 | 70 comments
14. Google Mars (2005) (google.com)
195 points by belter on April 22, 2023 | 80 comments
15. Effective Immediately: A central hub for people who've been recently laid off (2020) (github.com/effective-immediately)
212 points by derwiki on April 22, 2023 | 97 comments
16. First ROM Shadowing (os2museum.com)
62 points by kencausey on April 22, 2023 | 20 comments
17. Finetuning Large Language Models (sebastianraschka.com)
223 points by headalgorithm on April 22, 2023 | 70 comments
18. Why Did Thomas Harriot Invent Binary? (springer.com)
117 points by nanna on April 22, 2023 | 48 comments
19. ReceptioGate and the (Absolute) State of Academia (thecritic.co.uk)
77 points by nkurz on April 22, 2023 | 23 comments
20. More than 19k undersea volcanoes discovered (science.org)
135 points by tamaharbor on April 22, 2023 | 92 comments
21. Methane may not warm the Earth quite as much as previously thought (sciencenews.org)
194 points by starkd on April 22, 2023 | 433 comments
22. Sundar Pichai received $226M compensation, boosted by a triennial stock grant (bloomberg.com)
431 points by sine_break on April 22, 2023 | 519 comments
23. Navigating the world when your senses conjure up phenomena others can’t perceive (theamericanscholar.org)
88 points by Caiero on April 22, 2023 | 98 comments
24. Coinbase secures Bermuda licence (reuters.com)
158 points by overthrow on April 22, 2023 | 380 comments
25. Telegram Web Apps for Bots (telegram.org)
196 points by soheilpro on April 22, 2023 | 120 comments
26. Boot to Vim, Vim as Pid 1 (2014) (raymii.org)
155 points by jandeboevrie on April 22, 2023 | 88 comments
27. US 5-year credit default swaps rise to highest since 2011 (reuters.com)
146 points by almog on April 21, 2023 | 98 comments
28. Negative Mass (students.tools)
97 points by thunderbong on April 22, 2023 | 67 comments
29. When a mosquito can’t stop drinking blood, the result isn’t pretty (entomologytoday.org)
143 points by sohkamyung on April 22, 2023 | 87 comments
30. XINF (xinf.dev)
80 points by ZeroTerabytes on April 22, 2023 | 20 comments

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